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... furplus produce of one place for that of another , and thus encourages the in- dustry and increases the enjoyments of both . Unless a capital was employed in breaking and dividing certain portions either of the rude or manufactured produce ...
... furplus produce of one place for that of another , and thus encourages the in- dustry and increases the enjoyments of both . Unless a capital was employed in breaking and dividing certain portions either of the rude or manufactured produce ...
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... furplus produce of any fociety be a native or a foreigner , is of very little importance . If he is a foreigner , the number of their productive la- bourers is necessarily less than if he had been a native by one man only ; and the ...
... furplus produce of any fociety be a native or a foreigner , is of very little importance . If he is a foreigner , the number of their productive la- bourers is necessarily less than if he had been a native by one man only ; and the ...
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... fur- plus produce equally with that of a native , by ex- changing it for fomething for which there is a demand at home . It as effectually replaces the capital of the person who produces that surplus , and as effectually enables him to ...
... fur- plus produce equally with that of a native , by ex- changing it for fomething for which there is a demand at home . It as effectually replaces the capital of the person who produces that surplus , and as effectually enables him to ...
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... produce for immediate use and con , sumption , and to transport the furplus part either of the rude or manufactured produce to those distant markets where it can be exchanged for fomething for which there is a demand at home . The ...
... produce for immediate use and con , sumption , and to transport the furplus part either of the rude or manufactured produce to those distant markets where it can be exchanged for fomething for which there is a demand at home . The ...
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... furplus produce of all those three countries feems to have been always exported by foreign- ers , who gave in exchange for it fomething elfe for which they found a demand there , frequently gold and filver . It is thus that the fame ...
... furplus produce of all those three countries feems to have been always exported by foreign- ers , who gave in exchange for it fomething elfe for which they found a demand there , frequently gold and filver . It is thus that the fame ...
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Página 182 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 181 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 181 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 182 - To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals; and must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
Página 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Página 186 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Página 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 80 - According to the natural course of things, therefore, the greater part of the capital of every growing society is, first, directed to agriculture, afterwards to manufactures,. and last of all to foreign commerce.
Página 456 - The assembly which deliberates and decides concerning the affairs of every part of the empire, in order to be properly informed, ought certainly to have representatives from every part of it. That this union, however, could be easily effectuated, or that difficulties and great difficulties might not occur in the execution, I do not pretend. I have yet heard of none, however, which appear insurmountable.